Huang Zongxi of the Ming Dynasty once said in "Wang Zhengnan's Epitaph": "Shaolin is famous for its boxing and bravery. However, the master is fighting people, and people can take advantage of them. There are so-called insiders who use silence to stop, and the offenders will be killed immediately. , so I left Shaolin as an outsider and built it on Zhang Sanfeng of the Song Dynasty."

In terms of training methods, martial arts boxing can be generally divided into external boxing and internal boxing.

Waijiaquan pays attention to the external training of muscles and bones to strengthen muscles and bones and increase strength.

The training methods are mostly eccentric swordsmanship, such as iron sand palm, monument throwing hand, etc. If you practice too much, calluses will grow on your hands. In some serious cases, your hands will be completely deformed from the practice, and they will look swollen like steamed buns.

Neijiaquan, on the other hand, combines Taoist inner elixir health-preserving techniques, such as Tai Chi and Baguazhang, on the basis of Waijiaquan. It is practiced externally and nourished internally, step by step.

The source of the real "waijia" is to become a monk, transcend the world, and pursue the pure land of bliss in the West.

The "inner family" is a Taoist priest who leads the practice. He can marry a wife, have children, and share a family relationship at home, thus becoming an inner family.

The internal and external concepts are different, and the boxing and martial arts flowing out are naturally different.

To put it simply, one can be learned quickly and the other is difficult to get started, each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

For example, the Drunken Eight Immortals Fist practiced by Chen Hao can be regarded as a type of internal boxing because it takes the image of the Eight Immortals of Taoism and absorbs part of the piles of Baguazhang in the Zhuang Kung Fu.

As for the "Iron Sand Palm", "Eagle Claw Fist" and "Dragon Claw Hand" mentioned in his grandfather's notes, they are mostly foreign martial arts passed down from the Seventy-Two Special Skills of Northern Shaolin.

Northern Shaolin has thirty-six external skills and thirty-six internal skills, which can be practiced both internally and externally. When combined together, they become the seventy-two unique skills that everyone is familiar with.

In addition, Shaolin Temple has lay disciples all over the world, and there are countless examples of people who have learned martial arts and then entered the world to form their own sect.

For example, on the official website of the Wushu Association, there are dozens of schools of martial arts training such as Iron Sand Palm alone.

The "Iron Sand Palm" training method in front of Chen Hao is a style further optimized by the ancestors of Zui Quan combined with the Iron Sand Palm of Northern Shaolin.

"Put in the rice first, then the sand, and finally the gravel."

"Coupled with the external application and internal use of the traditional Chinese medicine, practice over time, and the hands will become harder and harder, until the skin and fist bones are as thick as iron, and then you will achieve great success."

"When you practice this external skill, you are really brave and diligent, short and rough!" Chen Hao carefully looked through the specific training method of this iron sand palm, and then compared it with the drunken Eight Immortals who could not understand the meaning of his fist after more than ten years of practice, and felt in his heart Full of emotions.

……

Seeing that the sun had not yet set, after sitting and resting for a while, Chen Hao went to a supermarket outside the ancient street and brought back a large bag of rice.

The reason why rice is used to practice Iron Sand Palm is because rice itself has strong water absorption.

The faster the hands lose water, the surface of the skin will secrete a layer of sebum. In addition to protecting the skin of the hands, this layer of sebum can also accelerate the formation of the cuticle on the hands.

According to the description in Grandpa’s notes, the rice used to practice Iron Sand Palm for the first time cannot be Japonica rice.

Because the surface of japonica rice is too round and smooth, the friction is not as good as that of slender indica rice.

In order to better meet the requirements of practicing Qigong, Chen Hao simply picked a bag of imported Thai fragrant rice.

This thing is considered to be the most slender indica rice variety that Chen Hao can buy nearby. The two hairs are pointed. If you look closely, it looks like a compressed short needle. In addition, it has a low moisture content and is more absorbent than ordinary indica rice.<

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"Shasha~"

"Shasha~"

Returning to the martial arts hall, he found a basin and poured the fragrant rice into it. Chen Hao began to stand up and stabbed the rice grains with both hands.

That kind of itchy and prickly pain is a hundred times more intense than when you were a kid and stole a player's rice vat!

In addition, from the martial arts competition with Song Shijie yesterday, there are still fresh blood scabs on the fist bones.

At this moment, when you pierce the rice hard, the blood scabs will naturally peel off under the friction of the rice grains.

"Hiss~ This feeling is really terrible!" Chen Hao took a breath.

Fortunately, he has been practicing martial arts for more than ten years and has suffered a lot. He gritted his teeth and got over this kind of external training.

"Shasha~"

"Shasha~"

As the speed of thrusting into the basin increased, Chen Hao's face became more and more distorted, and new scratches began to appear on the skin of his hands.

If you look closely, you will see streaks of blood all over the back of his hands.

Because the skin on the back of the hand is more delicate than the palm.

Fortunately, hard work paid off. Under the influence of the aura of [Skill Acceleration], a brand new skill quickly popped up on the data panel:

【Name: Chen Hao】

[Realm: Mid-stage Anjin]

[Skills: Drunken Master Lv1 (135/200), Iron Sand Palm Lv0 (2/50)]

[Source point: 0.12]

[Halo: Skill Acceleration (23:01)]

"I remember when Drunken Master was at level 0, the upper limit of proficiency was 100 points."

"The upgrade proficiency of Iron Sand Palm is only half of that of Drunken Master!"

"Is it because of the quick success of external skills?"

"The simpler the effort, the shorter the progress bar?" Chen Hao's heart moved.

Seeing the 1 point of proficiency in the iron sand palm jumping up every few minutes, the visible improvement in strength made Chen Hao become more energetic in his practice.

It wasn't until two hours passed, night gradually fell, his stomach began to growl, his steps were shaky, and his ears were dizzy, that Chen Hao took his hands out of the rice basin.

At this time, the proficiency of [Iron Sand Palm Lv0] has risen to (23/50), and the efficiency is so fast that even Chen Hao himself is a little stunned!

It’s just that for such a rapid improvement, the price paid is also not small.

After taking his hands out of the rice basin, Chen Hao found that his hands seemed to have been rubbed on a kitchen grater. They were bloody and the palms and backs of his hands were scratched to varying degrees.

"External Kung Fu, Waijia Quan, is just like monks practicing meditation. The most fearful thing is that you will become obsessed with practicing Kung Fu."

"It seems that in the next few days, before the injury is healed, we can no longer practice hastily." Chen Hao sighed in his heart, knowing that he was practicing in a hurry.

Fortunately, Chen Hao often encountered this kind of situation when he was practicing boxing in the past.

Enduring the itching in his hands, Chen Hao went to the office to pick up the unused bottle of wine and took two sips.

When the alcohol got stronger and his head started to feel a little dizzy, and the alcohol numbed most of the pain, he applied the bruise wine evenly to the wounds on his hands.

"Hiss~"

"This feeling... is too overwhelming!" Chen Hao grinned in pain, his expression twisted, as if he was wearing a mask of pain.

This guy is probably a born ruthless person!

Applying wine to such dense flesh wounds is the kind of medicinal wine specially used to treat bruises.

The heartbreaking pain and the stinging sensation of a foreign object intruding into the wound are enough to make one's scalp numb just thinking about it.

But after applying the medicinal wine, this guy endured the pain and bandaged himself, then cleaned up the messy martial arts hall inside and out.

I stuffed the two notebooks left by my grandfather that I had been looking through for half an afternoon into a backpack and carried them with me.

Then I closed the door with confidence and went out, sneaking to the ancient streets to find some delicious food to reward my internal organs.

……

"Dong dong~dong dong~"

As soon as he left the quiet martial arts hall, Chen Hao heard the unusual sound of gongs and drums coming from the embankment in the distance.

Looking for a reputation, I saw a group of young adults carrying a slender dragon boat. They were shouting "Hey, hey, hey," and were slowly moving toward the cruise ship dock under the embankment amid a group of people beating gongs and drums.

Move slowly.

"Dragon boat rowing?"

"Is it almost the Dragon Boat Festival again?"

"Time flies so fast!"

Chen Hao's heart moved, he quickened his pace, and also squeezed into the crowd to watch the excitement for a while.

Because Heyang City is located at the intersection of three rivers and has a developed water system, the entire city has a culture of worshiping dragon totems.

Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat racing like this is held.

Although it is not as elaborate as in areas with developed ancestral ancestral halls such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian, watching the dragon boat entering the water ceremony at close range still has a unique cultural heritage.

I saw a small altar at the cruise ship pier. There were stacks of pots and pans filled with chicken, duck, pig heads, and various fruit plates.

A Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe and holding a wooden sword, while ringing a bell, shouted: "The Dragon King is on patrol, evil spirits retreat... The weather is good, the country is peaceful..." and other sacrificial inscriptions.

When the ritual ceremony was over, the Taoist priest strode up to the dragon boat, stretched out his hand to pluck it, and murmuringly took off the red cloth covering the dragon's eyes on the dragon's head. He dipped a willow branch in water and smeared it on.

This is the finishing ceremony of dragon boat racing. Like the dragon boats in Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian, most of them are buried in rivers and ponds when not in use. Some of them will set up a "dragon shed" in ancestral halls for worship.

The dragon boats in Heyang City are enshrined in temples on the ancient streets, and are maintained by the atmosphere of smoke and incense.

As for the eyes of the dragon head, they usually cover the eyes with red cloth. This is because they are afraid that the dragon king will wake up early and there will be too much rain, causing rivers to flood and flood the city.

With the beating of gongs and drums on the pier, the young men carrying the dragon boat pushed the "awakened" dragon boat into the water of the Sanjiang River, and the dragon raising ceremony was truly over.

In the next few days, we boarded a boat and paddled, swam the dragon in the river, competed, and finally collected the dragon and hid it.
To be continued...